settle an argument

"I have one other," he said in the tone of a man who has just settled an argument with a telling point.

"I've had people call me to settle an argument with their spouse," she said.

The result failed to settle an argument that has raged for 70 years.

"Trial by combat is a poor way to settle an argument.

The reference concerned a fight in the street between two youths to settle an argument.

Many of the 23 men had been arrested before and weren't above settling an argument with a fight.

It was just like a man, she thought, to try to settle an argument by asserting his physical dominance.

She directed the girls to their assigned seats and then had to settle an argument about who was going to sit alone.

Besides, it seemed an amusing way to settle an argument where a man's life hung in the balance.

Could you settle an argument and tell us how far a ship would be visible before disappearing over the horizon?

Aaron was killed six weeks later, shot in the head while trying to settle an argument in his neighborhood.

Nor are there many young black women in a sport that started as a male aristocrat's way of settling an argument.

Amanda entered; she'd gone to settle an argument between two of the paying guests upstairs.

But guns suggest one way of settling an argument, and word processors induce us to function as they do.

Gally turned to Paul, as though asking him to settle an argument.

I am a believer in the adage that facts seldom settle an argument.

They can't settle an argument over who is going to wear the fireman's hat."

Rarely does one settle an argument so conclusively.

- Tell ye what but, mate, you settle an argument, between mates, likes.

"I need to settle an argument, a wand is not required for apparation, correct?"

"Hey, Salvo, settle an argument for us, will you?

Joining the Crowd Q. Can you settle an argument?

"I had a guy knock on the door for me to settle an argument between him and his wife," Mr. Sullivan related.

Norms defining acceptable ways for settling an argument or dispute usually exclude physical violence and manslaughter.

"Help settle an argument for me," Glyndwr said.